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Native apps suck too. i cannot list 10 native mac apps that are truly great, including Apple’s own. To me these days native on desktop means web, not Appkit. I can resize the whole interface with a common shortcut, I can select text trivially, native Mac apps constantly fail to do both. Developing native apps for the Mac is a mess, with immature SwiftUI, the absolute garbage liquid glass is on the desktop, the outdated Appkit framework and iOS based Mac Catalyst. Electron is a sane choice and good enough for Figma, Slack, Notion, leading apps in their respective categories.

Have both and none is falling apart. Both have their advantages, the Sample is a more robust and also just bland, KO2 is more fun and interesting. It’s comparable to Nintendo vs Sony, both excellent in their own way.

Unfortunately a very large part of the population is living their digital life inside closed platforms nowadays and this is getting even worse with younger generations who literally think tiktok and instagram is _the_ internet. On these platforms influencers like Tate can gain popularity extremely quickly if they resonate with your interests, fears, ideology. Tate is/was really popular with men of all ages, representing a mix of hustle mindset, ambition, materialistic goals, working out, mixed in with ponzi scheme like courses on how to make it in today’s world. It gives a simplistic answer to a lot of people, similar to the cults of yesterday.

I think Ive deserves some respect. His portfolio makes it clear what type of car he will design, same with Newson. It’s Ferrari’s leadership that has to be held accountable for the decision, my guess is they wanted to break into a brand new demographic. Many say it should have been a sub-brand, for some reason they didn’t use that option. I don’t lien the car’s look, but also don’t hate it. Let’s see it on the road, get some review on the comfort etc. I honestly think it will be all fine, once the current wave of criticism blows over.

Go to modular meets, music instrument expos like Superbooth, dj sets and live concerts. I met all my best friends this way, everybody is a record collector, beat maker or techno producer. Record conventions are also fun, after couple of occasions you will realize how small the scene is.

Couple of things that helped me in similar situations:

- volunteer: find a place you can help others, go cook for the homeless, work with other volunteers, not only are you doing good and meeting new people, you also appreciate what you have more

- think about what made you happy when you were younger, connect with your younger self, explore the dreams you never had a chance to fulfill

- go to therapy: this will help you better understand your feelings, a professional who is there to listen to you, help you get out of loops you are stuck in, normalize your thinking about life. Hinghly recommended!

- do sports: this will help you stay fit and have little successes, you can feel good about.

The world is wonderful, try to explore it and be patient with yourself. Trust the process, improve yourself, be kind and look at this period as a test that will shape your future self. It’s hard now but better days are coming if you put in the work. Good luck!

I rarely feel that any more, especially with the latest liquid glass updates. I used to work on high profile native apps, but embraced Elektron after Figma destroyed Sketch, the supposedly superior native alternative. Electron apps run fine on my 4 years old M2Max 32gb Macbook Pro, I never really experience any problems running Notion, Figma, VScode and Linear side by side. I enjoy being able to resize text in all of these apps like you do on any website, or being able to select text across different UI elements and blocks. Web content has a built in level of accessibility that is really hard for native apps to implement.

Berghain puts stickers on your phone cameras, it’s pretty non intrusive while substantially improving the party experience. I didn’t see a single phone in the air on the dancefloor. It was quite refreshing, felt like partying in the 2000s.

It looks like they made a decision to include icons for every menu item and the developers for each app had to come up with an icon association for all menu items. I’m sure they realized along the way that this was a bad idea, maybe it was too late.

Electron is usually a business choice, it’s performant enough at the fraction of the cost. it has very little to do with developers being lazy.

After signing up with Apple sign-in, the app fails to load favorites, chats, fails to upload images and fails to submit issues. Something to look into.

I tried the app and dragging down on the content doesn’t dismiss the keyboard interactively like Messages, Safari or even ChatGPT does. That is usually the telltale sign that an app is not fully native, I haven’t see any cross platform framework succeeding with this particular behavior. Not the end of the world but still expected in Design Award runner ups.

I’m curious to hear where you think this is a showstopper. I’ve been testing some Flutter apps lately and other than some mismatches in platform UI elements they have been smooth. I wonder what you would think of apps like Kagi News.

That is one way to look at them. The other is more akin to a parasite, wait for small companies to invest and innovate and once a product is proven in the marketplace, copy it. I don't really want to judge them, cheap music gear is certainly good for consumers but talking to small manufacturers over many years I've yet to meet anyone who likes them. If anything smaller players are now extremely careful to open source stuff exactly because of them.

When I was working with TextKit years ago I was constantly using the Hopper decompiler on iOS SDKs to understand the internal workings of these frameworks. Documentation is sparse and calling functions in the right order resulted in big differences in results. It can take a lot of time and trial and errors to get it right.

It’s pretty standard for electronic / sample based music acts to have live bands assembled for touring after the completely sequenced studio album takes off. It’s a hit or miss depending on how well the musicians can reinterpret the source material.

The fact that they reversed the change so easily proves the point that there wasn’t a good reason for it in the first place. I feel the same about Liquid Glass, so far I have not seen a good explanation on what actual problem does it solve, other than being fancy at the cost of degrading readability, wasting space and introducing a huge amount of work for developers.

The Tesla app was using location services when the screenshot was taken. It’s a similar indicator to camera activity, basically a privacy feature in iOS.

Excluding their cables Apple products held up incredibly well for me. Maybe I’m just lucky but they outlasted every single Android phone and non Apple laptop. It would be interesting to see actual statistics about the average lifespan of each category.

+1 really enjoyed the whole collection of short stories from Cortazar when I read it at uni.

https://www.amazon.com/Bestiary-Selected-Stories-Julio-Cort%...

PRNG = pseudo-random number generator. I think it would have made sense to spell it out in the first sentence and go with the acronym from then on. Like the author does it with multiply-with-carry (MWC). Makes it more readable and consistent throughout the article.

The first time I registered to Mastodon it autocapitalized my user name on the web form. Thus I ended up with a capitalized name. I didn’t like that as all my Social handles are lower case, thus deleted the account and registered again only to be alerted that the name was taken. So basically I couldn’t change it to lowercase on their interface, but when deleted I could not register it again.

And that in a nutshell is my experience with everything Mastodon :)

After years the issue is still open and makes the first impression of a lot of users pretty bad.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20487

I used to use Apple Music but when my Credit Card expired I missed two months payment and Apple happily deleted all of my playlists and library. I don’t think they realise how bad this is, but I will never use it or subscribe ever again.

Before Three.js there was Papervision3D for Flash written in ActionScript. While it was not a direct port I imagine a lot of ideas were already established and pretty straightforward to implement in Javascript. Happy to see Three.js going strong.

I moved my family plan from Spotify because they still don’t have an easy to use music locker solution. As an amateur producer I love to have my unreleased music always available. I was already a premium Youtube subscriber to get rid of ads and Youtube music was included. While the UI is not great I can appreciate that it can play and download music from Youtube as well that is not otherwise available on any of the other streaming services. The way Spotify treats third party developers (including myself) with all the unfixed issues being broken for years was just the last nail in the coffin.

I could not disagree more, SwiftUI is a black box that is great when it works but is infuriatingly incomplete to this day. I filed dozens of radars in the past year. I’ve worked on app of the year type applications and they use zero SwiftUI for a reason.

I’m on the opinion of boycotting visionOS as a protest on their link tax decisions, green bubble shenanigans and other non competitive moves. The future should be innovative and inclusive with fair competition and equal opportunity. Enough is enough.

I was always curious what was going on there. I definitely have a negative impression of them already based on their recurring job ads for the elusive 3rd engineer.

Who are “some Swiss companies” exactly?

After the Instagram subscription debacle, no thanks. There’s no reason to trust Meta with any of your data, they have to sort out their privacy policies first.